Improvement in sad-irons



PRESTON'. 1r. a BARRY.

l i Flat Iron Heater.

No. 39,171. Patented July 7, 1863.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

O. W. PRESTON, JR., AND CHARLES BARRY, OF CORNING, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN'SAD-IRONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,171, dated July 7, 1863.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, O. W. PRESTON, Jr., and O. BARRY, of Corning, in the county of Steuben and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in SadIrons and Heaters; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings7 making apart of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical central section of our invention,taken in the linea: x,Fig.2; Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same, taken in the line y y, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two gures.

This invention relates to a new and useful im provement in sad-irons or hat-irons,77 as they are frequently termed; and it consists in constructing the iron with a shell or case, in which a sliding or adjustable heater is placed and arranged in such a manner that the iron may be applied to a coalvoil lamp and made to serve as a draft chimney for the same, and be heated very expeditiously, a cold iron being applied to the lamp as a heated one is removed, in order that the lamp may always be provided with a chimney and a heated iron be always at command during the process of ironing. i

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct our invention, we will proceed to describe it.

A represents a lampvprovided with an ordinary coal-oil burner, B, and having a stand, C, attached to it which may be constructed of sheet-metal plate, bent in the form as shown in Fig. 1, and having its lower ends secured to the fountain or body of thelamp. The upper horizontal part, a, of the stand C has an aperture made in it directly over the apex of the cone or detlector b, to admit of the flame of the lamp passing through. (See Fig. l.)

.D represents theiron, which is composed of a shell, c, having a handle, d, attached to it at one side, and two parallel guide-rods, e e, within it. Within the shell a heater, f, is placed and'ttted on two guide-rods, e e. This heater extends the whole length of the shell, and is equal to it in width, but it is not so deep or thick as the shell-not quite halt' as deep. (See Fig. 1.) By this means the heater is allowed a certain degree of play or movement within the shell, and a space allowed bet-Ween the heater and the inner side ot' the shell to form a draft-chimney, as will be fully understood by referring to Fig. 1.

Frein the above description it will be seen that in order to heat the iron the latter is inserted or turned bottom upward, so as to cause the heater f to fall against the side of the shell which has the handle d attached. The iron is then placed endwise ou the stand C, and the flames of the. lamp will heat both the heater f and the bottom d of the shell. When a heated iron is removed from the stand C, a cold one is placed upon it so as to keep the lamp supplied with a heated iron wheneverv one is required. It will be understood, of course, that when the iron is in use, the heater f rests upon the bottom a. ofthe shell.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The iron D, composed of a shell, e, and asliding or adjustable heatexgf, fitted within it and arranged substantially as shown, so as to serve, while being heated, as a draft-chimney for the lamp, as set forth.

O. W. PRESTON, JR. CHARLES BARRY.

Witnesses:

F. H. MoGEoRGE, WILLIAM B. THOMAS. 

